You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.


Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114

Erasmus Quotes

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.